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[quote user="the old train man"]Now I dont pull freight cars behind my pacific (although I would like to sometimes)[/quote] Depending on the railroad it may be prototypical to do so, especially if it is a smaller driver model.  I say go for it.  In one of my railroad books there is a photo of a NYC Hudson assisting a Mohawk with a freight.  Online I found a photo of a pacific pulling a freight train (CN I believe), and several photos of a NYC Hudson double header pulling a string of hopper cars.   As far as how nitpicky I am: I use Sergent couplers.   The first thing I notice when I look at photos in the model press or models in contests is the presence of a trip pin and the spring, and oversized kadee couplers.  To me it ruins the entire effect that people try for with copying an photo of a specific piece of rolling stock to make it look like the prototype.   Do I comment on this to specific people directly, no.    I have seen many layouts on layout tours, very few if anyone I have met actually uses the Kadee under track magnet system for uncoupling.   Most use a pick for uncoupling, one layout I have operated on used a h shaped magnet.  That is about the only time I have seen the trip pin used.  For most it is an appendage that they could actually do without (you could even snip it off and flip it over so it hangs like a air line.).    They make magnetic brake air hoses for HO scale (PWRS).  I have a package that I am going to give a shot at using.  If I find retrofitting not too difficult, I will use these so that operators have to hook up air hoses between cars.
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